This week's Macro Mania Monday is Bubbles.

Post your entries here.

Hi there,

I've been using Menalto Photo Gallery for my photos, and I'm not that happy with it. I've seen a similar possibility on several different sites, but I don't know what it's called or where to find it (or even if it's downloadable software, like the Menalto Photo Gallery).

You can see it at work on this site - click on the photo, and you're presented with a photo all by itself, and a "Go Back" link. Much more what I'm looking for. Yes, I could do it using HTML but that would be reeeeeeally time consuming.

I'd ask the guy who owns that site, but he and his wife just had a baby and I'm thinking he isn't going to have a whole lot of free time.

Thanks much for any suggestions,
-Sage

I am pleased to announce the details for this year's Holiday Party. So mark your calendars.

You are invited to the
GTA Bloggers / Toronto Area Photoblogs Holiday Party
at Big Trouble in Little China aka Joey Devilla's place.
Friday, December 3rd, 2004 at 8 pm

(to get address details you must ask for an evite)

There will be the usual bath tub full of beer, pot luck food fare as well as a special on going slideshow featuring various work for Toronto Area Photobloggers.

UPDATE: The holiday party is less than a week away, have you recieved your evite? have you RSVPed? what are you waiting for?

This week's i-gizmo challenge is Book.

Post your entries here.

This week on CBC Radio3 Davin Risk's photos are featured on CBC Radio 3's website. His group of photos are of "Indirect Objects"

Davin Risk is always on the hunt for traces of the past exposed in the present. His photos may look devoid of life, but it's there like a footprint left behind in the snow.

Click on the plus sign at the top right corner of their page to advance.
Congrats Davin.

This week's Photo Friday challenge is Prosperity.

Post your entries here.

something i've been seeing for a while.

->click here<-

Winners of the 50th College Photographer of the Year competition:

http://www.cpoy.org/59/winimg.php

This week's Theme Thursday challenge is Round.

Post your entries here.

Hello, hello!

Long time blogger, first time photoblogger, making a short introduction.

There. That's it.

Actually I'd like to ask if anyone here has some good digital photography tutorial links they could forward my way. I'm using a Canon G5 and not too familiar with all the settings it has to offer [I upgraded from an HP 315 point and shoot].

I'm a little late on this news, but better late than never. 10 days ago, (so not the current issue, but the one previous) Matt O'Sullivan's photos were featured on CBC Radio 3's website. His group of photos are of "The Neutral God"

Matt O'Sullivan photographs people in his neighbourhood. A Favorite subject of his are men he sees taking a break from work or stopping to consider their next move.

Click on the plus sign at the top right corner of their page to advance.
Congrats Matt

This week's i-gizmo challenge is Night.

Post your entries here.

The editorial team of Spacing is pleased to announce that our third issue, the Work and Play In Public Space issue, will hit newsstands on Friday Dec. 10th.

Issue 3 cover section features articles on: early morning bird rescuers; Chinatwon street vendors; the un-wired worker; street youth; street hockey; the city as a playground; outdoor theatre; subway parties; and what it's like to be a graffiti cop. Contributors for this issue include Ryan Bigge (CBC Radio), Ed Keenan (Eye weekly), Michelle Kasprzak (Montreal new media artist), Misha Glouberman (Trampoline Hall), Shawn Micallef (murmur), and Graeme Parry (Toronto laneway expert and tour guide). A variety of Toronto's top photobloggers also contributed: Sam Javanrouh (Daily Does of Imagery), Matt O'Sullivan (thenarrative.net), Rannie Turingan (photojunkie.ca), Jonathon Day-Reiner (groundglass.ca), and Davin Risk (lowresolution.com). Spacing also used the illustrative skills of Julia Breckenreid (Globe and Mail, National Post), Marc Ngui (Zak Meadow, and CBC's Zed TV host), Marlena Zuber (Boston Globe, Washington Post), and Jen Hsieh (recent Applied Arts illustration award winner). The issue was designed and art
directed by Matthew Blackett (m@b comic, Eye weekly).

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Release Party!

When: Thursday December 9th, 2004
Where: El Mocambo (462 Spadina Ave. and Spadina and College)
How much: $10 cover, which includes a copy of new issue
As usual, Spacing will throw a big bash to launch our new issue on Thursday Dec. 9th, at Toronto's legendary El Mocambo. Show up anytime after 9pm. Musical guests are Reid Jamieson and Friends, and Audible. Also performing will be Dylan Studebaker, a punk rock street magician. We will be projecting large images captured by Spacing photographers. You can also win a subscription to Spacing by entering our raffle that night.

Lastly, if you are a subscriber, you will be placed on a list that allows you to enter the club for only $5. See -- we said you were special and we backed it up.

This week's Photo Friday is Patterns. Sometimes patterns occur that aren't repetitive.

Post your patterns here.

This weeks Theme Thursday is Everyday Things. Seriously, how much simpler can that be? The world is your oyster.

Post your submissions here.

I'm feeling a little famous today.

Posting photography online, you always hope that your photos will be seen and enjoyed by people. But I have been taken aback twice in two days now. I've been spotted.

Yesterday evening, I was Pikto picking up pictures when one of the girls behind the counter mentioned that she found my site by looking up "West Camera". I was strangely embarassed and amused and walked out of the store with a smile on my face.

Today, like 5 minutes ago, I recieved a phone call from Michael at Merkle camera. I figured he was calling me about the lens I had on hold at their store. Instead, he was calling me to tell me that he found one of my Guildwood Inn photos online. I'm deeply amused.

I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised, in the past I have been spotted by a couple local singer/songwriters who were familar with my work, as well as someone in an audience that recognized Jay from pictures that I had posted of him online.

Have you ever been spotted in public?

The Lens Day challenge this week is Funny.

Post your submissions here.

This weeks Macro Mania Monday challenge is Frost or Dew. Luckily I have only seen frost twice so far this season. Hopefully it will hold off another couple of weeks, before it becomes a daily occurance.

Post your submission in the comments.

I 'm not sure if it's been considered or discussed but I think it
would be cool to publish a book of Toronto Photobloggers work. Each
photoblogger could contribute a few pieces and with so many great
photobloggers here it would make a nice book. I have no idea what the
cost would be or if we could get a printer to sposor the project in
which case we could have the proceeds or part of the proceeds go to a
Toronto charity. A group exhibition at a gallery of printed work by
Toronto Photobloggers would be cool too. Just an idea....

Charles

This weeks i-gizmo challenge is Trees. Hopefully you have had the opportunity in the last few weeks to get out there and shoot some images of the trees while they were changing colour.

This week's Photo Friday is Family. It's also marks the 100th challenge. What does Family mean to you?

JANIETA EYRE
November 12, 2004 - Ryerson University, Lecture Hall LIB-72
7:30 p.m., Free - show up early

Toronto-based photographer and filmmaker Janieta Eyre has quickly gained notoriety in the contemporary art world with her surreal portraits of herself as twins. Starkly graphic, her carefully composed photos explore notions of the uncanny and the double in a playful yet disquieting fashion.

With the 2000 Lady Lazarus series, Eyre used 19th century spirit photography as a reference point for her explorations of death, resurrection, and genetic engineering. Drawing inspiration from a dream and the series title from a poem by Sylvia Plath, the colour and selenium-toned black and white images of the series "seemed to exist in a place at once the past and the future."

What I Haven't Told You , Eyre's current body of work, continues her exploration of the theatrically staged photograph and the affinity of photography for phantom presences which can be sensed but not seen. Eyre has also recently made the jump from photography to filmmaking with her first short film, entitled So Now We Understand Each Other . Based on a short story she wrote about a woman who believes her two dolls are her children, the film continues Eyre's exploration of motherhood as a complex and strange human relationship.

Janieta Eyre was born in London , England and was educated in Toronto where she received a philosophy degree from the University of Toronto . She also studied journalism part-time at Ryerson University and photography at the Ontario College of Art and Design. She lives and works in Toronto and is represented by the Christopher Cutts Gallery (Toronto) and Diane Farris Gallery (Vancouver).

Eyre has exhibited widely in Italy, Germany, Iceland, the United States and across Canada and was recently invited to participate in the Kwanju Biennale in South Korea. Eyre has been featured in several recent publications including Hive Magazine, Collezione Edge, and Faking Death and recently won a "Shine" award for Best Digital Imagery from Horizon Zero. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), Microsoft (New York), and the National Gallery of Iceland (Reykjavik).

http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/eyre/

Kodak Lecture Series

Today Weblogs, Inc. , the largest publisher of professional blogs, announced the launch of their 58th and 59th Weblogs—“The CSS Weblog” with James Jackson and “The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog” with Glenn Hauman.

Weblogs, Inc. also publishes The Digital Photography weblog which started in September 2004.

I have passion, maybe someone can hire me to write a weblog for a living.

This week's Theme Thursday is Window. One of my own favorite window shots is this one from Whitby Psych. But I'd rather not submit something from July.

Add your submissions to the comments here.

Can you believe we have been running this site for just over a month now. Time flies when you are having fun.

Just wanted to leave a few notes on here for folks to digest.

1) I added a section on the sidebar to a special blogroll, linking out of town guests. Hopefully this list will grow in the coming months. It certainly seems that people are making an effort to come up to Toronto to get together with us.

2) All emails regarding TAP can now be sent to torontophotoblogs@gmail.com. I set up a special gmail account specifically to deal with blogroll additions and other TAP correspondence.

3) If you haven't noticed, I have set up a discussion mailing list. If you haven't signed up for it already, Now is a great time to.

4) Check out the FAQ for other features of the site.

5) You may have noticed that I have been posting the topics for the regular weekly meme stuff. In the past week, I have been suggesting that people leave comments on the post if they submitted to that specific meme. (ie Photo Friday)

Also here are some numbers to crunch on.

We currently have 90 photobloggers listed in the Toronto Area.

We have 45 people whom have blogware accounts with posting access to the site.

We have 29 people who are subscribed to the mailing list.

Trafficwise, we are currently getting an average of at least 500 distinct hosts per day

We are also serving anywhere between 1000 to 1500 pages a day.

So where do we go from here. Personally I would like to see more people posting more often. If everyone posted some content once a week, every week, it would be more than enough to get the ball rolling.

Seen a new product? post it.
Have a spare picture? post it in the photoblog.
Like someone elses picture? post it in the noteworthy section
Really digging someones site? post it in the spotlight section
Heard about a new show? post it in the exhibit section

This week's Lens Day challenge is Gyration. For anyone who was at Joey's Party this past weekend, there were definite opportunities of capturing photos of me gyrating both during Kareoke as well as on the dance floor with three hot women. Unfortunately I don't think any of the photobloggers present caught any of those shots.

Add you Gyration links in the comments.

Back in the summer, Chris from Free Delivery posted a series of slides that he found in a garage sale [1][2][3][4][5]. A couple of minutes ago, a co-worker reminder me of a site called Found Magazine. It's a site that collects notes and photos and other lost items and posts them online. It's always amazing what you might find laying around.

I'm off to the REM concert tonight down at the Hummingbird Center (20 years after I last saw them open for The English Beat in 1984), and I see they have a "no cameras" policy for this event.

What kind of luck have people had with cameras at concerts around Toronto? Does it tend to be a band decision? A venue decision? Have you got into concerts with a camera, then kicked out for using it? What about smaller places, like the Horseshoe? Outdoor venues like the Molson Amphiteatre? (like Sam's pictures of Iron Maiden )

I'd be interested in hearing your experiences, as well as checking out your favorite shots...

I dropped off some film at Pikto yesterday and found out that they are having their Free Hi-Res CD promotion again. Basically, with any roll process and printed at Pikto this month, you will receive your pictures scanned for free.

What is hot in the news right now, this hour? And how can a view that pictorally in 100 images or less?

Check out 10x10, it defines the times in pictures and words.

10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.

10x10 is ever-changing, ever-growing, quietly observing the ways in which we live. It records our wars and crises, our triumphs and tragedies, our mistakes and milestones. When we make history, or at least the headlines, 10x10 takes note and remembers.

Each hour is presented as a picture postcard window, composed of 100 different frames, each of which holds the image of a single moment in time. Clicking on a single frame allows us to peer a bit deeper into the story that lies behind the image. In this way, we can dart in and out of the news, understanding both the individual stories and the ways in which they relate to each other.

(link via Christie)